Sacred Cow, Mad Cow
«Ferrieres cuts across historiographic heritages with intelligence and uncommon pertinence. Le Monde Ferrieres' accomplishment provides a historical foundation for anyone interested in development of public policy regarding what we eat. Booklist Its scholarly foundation is solid and extensive... She has read well and has chosen her texts... with care. -- Priscilla Ferguson Journal of Modern History An impressively researched addition to the Arts and Traditions of the Table Series... Filled with choice nuggets of food lore. Kirkus A study that has fascinating contemporary echoes... It is a dense but rewarding book. -- John Postgate Times Literary Supplement Well composed and excellently translated... a delightful excursion... Recommended. Choice Scholarly, densely written but fascinating. -- Ingebord Boyens Globe and Mail Sticks to a rich and well-exploited range of historical sources... Ferrieres argues convincingly. -- W. F. Bynum Nature An original and useful book. -- David F. Smith American Historical Review Truly groundbreaking. -- Richard Pillsbury The Historian»
Contemporary concerns about food such as those stemming from mad cow disease, salmonella, and other potential food-related dangers are hardly new-humans have long been wary of what they eat. Beyond the fundamental fear of hunger, societies have sought to protect themselves from rotten, impure, or unhealthy food. Les mer
She documents the bizarre and commonsensical attempts by European towns to ensure the quality of beef and pork, ranging from tighter controls on butchers to prohibiting Jews and menstruating women from handling meat. Examining the spread of Hungarian cattle disease, which ravaged the livestock of seventeenth-century Europe, Ferrieres recounts the development of safety methods that became the Western model for fighting animal diseases. Ferrieres discusses a wealth of crucial and curious food-related incidents, trends, and beliefs, including European explorers' shocked responses to the foodways of the New World; how some foods deemed unsafe for the rich were seen as perfectly suitable for the poor; the potato's negative reputation; the fierce legal battles between seventeenth-century French bread bakers and innkeepers; the role of the medical profession in food regulation; and how modern consumerism changed the way we eat. Drawing on history, folklore, agriculture, and anthropology, Ferrieres tells us how our decisions about what not to eat reflect who we are.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231131926
- Utgivelsesår
- 2005
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«Ferrieres cuts across historiographic heritages with intelligence and uncommon pertinence. Le Monde Ferrieres' accomplishment provides a historical foundation for anyone interested in development of public policy regarding what we eat. Booklist Its scholarly foundation is solid and extensive... She has read well and has chosen her texts... with care. -- Priscilla Ferguson Journal of Modern History An impressively researched addition to the Arts and Traditions of the Table Series... Filled with choice nuggets of food lore. Kirkus A study that has fascinating contemporary echoes... It is a dense but rewarding book. -- John Postgate Times Literary Supplement Well composed and excellently translated... a delightful excursion... Recommended. Choice Scholarly, densely written but fascinating. -- Ingebord Boyens Globe and Mail Sticks to a rich and well-exploited range of historical sources... Ferrieres argues convincingly. -- W. F. Bynum Nature An original and useful book. -- David F. Smith American Historical Review Truly groundbreaking. -- Richard Pillsbury The Historian»